What are the Jellyfish?

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They are these large Zepplin-like heavy-lifting semi-Buckyball lighter-than-air, stronger-than-steel, honey-combed aero-gel superstructure, cargo-blimps.

They are white like the clouds and shaped like half a marshmallow, smooth spherically curved top, like the cap of a tooth, holding within it the lighter than air, non-flammable, buoyancy gas sacks. This cargo-blimp lifting structure sits like an open umbrella on the long cylindrical carbon sieves that hang beneath this autonomous buoy. They are covered with solar cells that power the carbon sieves.

Every so often, the blimps "poop" out a carbon brick- or pelt the landscape with a black hail of carbon pelts. Huge packs of them float through our atmosphere like jelly fish in the deep ocean. But these are bio-engineered with nano-technology to "harvest" carbon dioxide gas from the atmosphere at the highest efficiency possible. They are attracted in packs to locations of intense carbon emissions, their food; they hover above cities and forest fires, volcanoes and cattle feed lots, factory smoke stacks and oil refineries. They vary from the size of a Hot Air Balloon to the size of a Football Stadium.....

They are actually free-floating autonomous self-replicating carbon extractors that look something like a cross between the giant sub-orbital Long Duration Balloon (here), but made out a more rigid superstructure from carbon aero-gels (here) and (here). So the thing would have a smokey bluish translucence, (like jellyfish), but would also have a patterned sequined exterior surface from the mini photo-voltaic solar cell panels used to power the craft.

The thing is essentially a sophisticated robot, mimicked after real-world organic adaptations, but designed to extract carbon from the atmosphere. The quantity of them in the sky is comparable to the quantity of combustion engines on earth. When storms approach they automatically inflate and rise above bad weather, then descend and continue their carbon extraction activities from the atmosphere.

This idea came to me after view an image of the earth infected with a carbon producing virus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBwjQsOEeg

Progress Dec.25

Jellyfishes purposes

main purpose: air cleaner/purifier- inhale Carbon and exhale oxygen

secondary purpose: 

GPS network

cell phone tower

homeland security

-tracking

-security cameras

Power (nutrition)

-photo voltaic cells covering the membrane (skin)

alternate (back up power)

-wind turbines

-hydroelectric  (water from ocean)

Brains:

? gears, clockwork parts

   based on/ and giving props to ancient technology

   a mix of ancient and futuristic technology

 - based on the Antikythera mechanism- 

it was a hand-wound clockwork device used by the ancient Greeks to calculate the motions of the sun, moon and planets as seen from Earth, as well as to predict solar and lunar eclipses.

-self automated

-self replicating system

-rapid prototype ( each part is grown)

-at regular intervals newer, larger parts are created for all systems from the core outward

Lifecycle:

?spores

?or eggs are created (hatched in a nest)

-like fish eggs they stay attached to the adult

larve stage

-they feed off of the adult.

-the grow in proportion to the adult diminishing.

-the adult then becomes waste product

-the adult is broken down into carbon blocks that fall away

-the carbon blocks are dense, light weight, biodegradable, small bricks

progress Dec. 17 2008 (thoughts)

self-replicating factories
lifecycle:
egg
pupa
larvae
adult

tunnels or tubes with a rail in the center that transports. Acts as a blood vessel. Sending raw materials in and waste materials (C02) out.

power supply: wind turbines? solar panels. solar voltaic cells.

The project released its designs and control programs under the GNU GPL. Using the help of citizens home computers to calculate the data.

progress Dec. 17 2008 (references)

Thinking and researching

looking into aerogel. Found this website dealing with using people as free labor for science

http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

lifecycle:
egg
larva
pupa
adult

sources:

Extraction Of Carbon Dioxide From Atmosphere Seen Possible
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/004648.html

Nanotech replicators to build solar photovoltaics panels
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/003996.html
talks about self replicating machines possibility

self replicating machines:

A fundamental obstacle of self-replicating machines, how to repair the repair systems, was the critical failure in the automated society described in The Machine Stops.

Von Neumann

Berserkers The name is derived from a series of novels by Fred Saberhagen feature an ongoing war between humanity and such machines

Cellular automaton:

Some living things use naturally occurring cellular automata in their functioning.

Patterns of some seashells, like the ones in Conus and Cymbiola genus, are generated by natural CA. The pigment cells reside in a narrow band along the shell's lip. Each cell secretes pigments according to the activating and inhibiting activity of its neighbour pigment cells, obeying a natural version of a mathematical rule.^{[citation needed]} The cell band leaves the colored pattern on the shell as it grows slowly. For example, the widespread species Conus textile bears a pattern resembling the Rule 30 CA described above.

Conus textile photo link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Textile_cone.JPG#file

Stoma (botany), a gas exchange pore in plants
Stoma (medicine), an opening which connects a portion of the body cavity to the outside environment

Moore's artificial living plants

In 1956 mathematician Edward F. Moore proposed the first known suggestion for a practical real-world self-replicating machine, also published in Scientific American.^[15][16] Moore's "artificial living plants" were proposed as machines able to use air, water and soil as sources of raw materials and to draw its energy from sunlight via a solar battery or a steam engine. He chose the seashore as an initial habitat for such machines, giving them easy access to the chemicals in seawater, and suggested that later generations of the machine could be designed to float freely on the ocean's surface as self-replicating factory barges or to be placed in barren desert terrain that was otherwise useless for industrial purposes. The self-replicators would be "harvested" for their component parts, to be used by humanity in other non-replicating machines.

Nanoscale Silica May Be Key To Hydrogen Storage

http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/cat_nanotech_for_energy_tech.html

nanophotonics

Fused Deposition Modelling FDM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fused_deposition_modeling

RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper.
http://www.reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome